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How To Use Python-Markdown with Flask and SQLite — step-by-step Databases tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Use Python-Markdown with Flask and SQLite

Python-Markdown is a Python library that allows you to convert Markdown text to HTML; it mostly follows the Markdown standard with a few minor differences to the standard Markdown syntax. In this tutorial, you’ll use Flask, SQLite, and Python-Markdown to build a small note-taking web application that supports formatting text using Markdown. The app will allow users to display, create, and format notes with h

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How to Use Ansible Roles to Abstract your Infrastructure Environment — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Use Ansible Roles to Abstract your Infrastructure Environment

This tutorial will explore how to create roles with templates and static files. Once you are familiar with the fundamentals of building roles, we’ll use [Ansible Galaxy](https://galaxy.ansible.com/) to incorporate community contributed roles into playbooks. By the end of this tutorial you will be able to create your own environment specific roles for your servers and use them in your own playbooks.

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How to Set Up Alertmanager with PagerDuty and Slack Integration on RHEL 8 — step-by-step RHEL 8 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up Alertmanager with PagerDuty and Slack Integration on RHEL 8

Alertmanager handles alert routing, deduplication, and notification dispatch for Prometheus. By integrating it with Slack and PagerDuty, your team receives real-time notifications through familiar channels while on-call engineers get paged for critical incidents. This tutorial walks through installing Alertmanager on RHEL 8, configuring receivers for both platforms, setting up routing logic, and verifying the setup […]

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SLES 15 — libgnomesu — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 15

SLES 15 — libgnomesu — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 6 June 2019 Affected versions: SLES 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE security advisory (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2011-1946 Upstream summary: gnomesu-pam-backend in libgnomesu 1.0.0 prints an error message but proceeds with the non-error code path upon failure of the setgid or setuid […]

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Debian 9 — mupdf — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 9

Debian 9 — mupdf — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 6 June 2019 Affected versions: Debian 9 (stretch) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2017-14685 CVE-2017-15587 CVE-2017-17866 CVE-2018-6544 Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – Alternative Approaches […]

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Arch Linux — wesnoth — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Arch Linux

Arch Linux — wesnoth — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Arch Linux (rolling release) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Arch ASA ASA-201807-15 Related CVEs: CVE-2018-1999023 Upstream summary: Type: arbitrary code execution. Status: Fixed. Affected: 1.14.3-1. Fixed in: 1.14.4-1. Group: AVG-741. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause […]

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Android Alert Dialog using Kotlin — step-by-step DevOps tutorial on Progressive Robot

Android Alert Dialog using Kotlin

In this tutorial, we'll be discussing Alert Dialogs and implement them in our Android Application using Kotlin. Alert Dialogs Alert Dialog is a window that pops up on the screen. They generally show some information and ask for a user action. There are three core components that build an Alert Dialog. Title Text Message Text […]

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FreeBSD 12 — bitcoin-daemon — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — bitcoin-daemon — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 5 June 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: bitcoin — Denial of Service and Possible Mining Inflation Related CVEs: CVE-2018-17144 Upstream summary: Bitcoin Core reports: CVE-2018-17144, a fix for which was released on September 18th in Bitcoin Core […]

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